The select statement on pages 109-110 in version 2 of the PDF returns no rows. Specifically, the proj4text column for the row having srid value 4269 does not contain the string "nad83," so the where clause condition "proj4text ILIKE '%nad83%'" excludes that row.

I see that I get the correct row if I replace that clause with "srtext ILIKE '%nad83%'" however I get back four additional rows, too.

The query at the bottom of page 110 returns no rows for the same reason.

Oh, this is with PostGIS 2.0.1 installed as part of OpenGeo suite 3.0.1. Furthermore, in the source code download for PostGIS 2.0.3, the file spatial_ref_sys.sql does not insert '+datum=NAD83' into proj4text in any row as far as I can tell.

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dconger
Added mention of second query on pg. 110 and spatial_ref_sys.sql.

Well that's annoying. I think this was from our 1.5 example and we didn't reedit it.

In PostGIS 1.5, the proj4text for 4269 was:

+proj=longlat +ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +no_defs

and it was the only one that had datum=NAD83 in it.

In 2.0 as part of resourcing from epsg files, it seems this was updated to not have a datum and is now equivalent in meaning to the other 4 rows you are coming up with.

If you look at the others, you'll see they have exactly the same proj4text which is all PostGIS cares about. I'll ask if this was a mistake in resourcing that the datum was stripped or if it was intentional.